lavalike

Resembling lava in any of its characteristics. *lavacre, s. [Lat. lavacrum , from lavo =to wash.] A font, a washing. *la-vânge', s. [Fr.] A great fall of snow from mountains; an avalanche. lavement lăv-a-rět, s. [Fr.] Ichthy.: Coregonus , or Thymallus lavaret , a fish of the salmon family, found in European lakes. la-va-tër-a, s. [Named after the two Lavaters, celebrated physicians and naturalists of Zurich.] Bot .: Tree Mallow, a genus of Malvaceæ, tribe Malvese. It consists of tall, hairy herbs or shrubs with angled or lobed leaves, axillary flowers, with a five-cleft calyx, and a trifid involucel, a long staminal column, and many-celled ovary, each cell with one ovule. Eighteen species are known: One is Lavatera arborea , the Tree Mallow. It has large, purple, glo y flowers, three to six feet high, and grows on rocks by the seaside. la-vat-Ic, a. [Eng. lava; t connective; English adj. suff. ic.] Consisting of or resembling lava; lavic. *la-va-tion, s. [Latin lavatio , from lavo =to wash.] The act of washing.